Author: mike

Iran’s decision to press ahead with its nuclear program puts European leaders in a tough spot: They are trying to stop Tehran from doing something that is technically not illegal. The seals that Tehran...

Well the reason blog updates were so sparse for many months, and so frequent in the last week or so, is that all summer I was doing an Organic Chemistry crash course. Which was...

Set up a bulletin board system again.

Things were looking up for Chen Xianzhong, proprietor of Baghdad’s first authentic Chinese restaurant in the new Iraq, until a suicide car bomber blew up outside the place less than two weeks ago. The...

Armed men entered Baghdad’s municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the city’s mayor and installed a member of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite militia. The deposed mayor, Alaa al-Tamimi, who was...

Changed the Custom 404 page to do some dynamic image shuffling.

The Oregon teachers’ board reprimanded a high school football coach for licking the bleeding wounds of student athletes [he gave] a pep talk about a coach who had licked and healed players’ wounds so...

Arnold Schwarzenegger rapping and exhorting over the likes of It’s Raining Men and Let Your Body Rock in his Total Body Workout training routine. It doesn’t get much worse than this.

Implemented a custom icon and a custom Error 404 for the site.

Investigators say a bad toupe tipped them off to more than $100,000 worth of heroin hidden underneath — superglued to [a] man’s head. Customs and border protection officers say the man, arriving on a...